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by burningChrome 648 days ago
Who could forget the Signal Hijacking in 1987?

On the night of November 22, 1987, the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking

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It is mentioned in the article, talking about a budget imitation of a budget imitation of CGI.